Re: HOWTO paste to dos
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:08:07AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Carl Fink wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:32:25PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> >>AFAIK/CT the copying happens automatically out of every app. I've had
> >>reason to try (except pdf's, images, and the like, of course).
> >
> >Okay, I just checked with the only graphical app I had open,
> >Mozilla-Firebird. Highlighted text is NOT automatically copied.
> >
> >Nor in Abiword.
> >
> >Nor in Dillo.
> >
> >Perhaps you can name a graphical X program that does automatically
> >copy text to the clipboard by highlighting it?
>
> It works for me. I suspect you have to be running gpm in order for this
> to work, although that's just a guess. (I am running gpm.)
You don't, no. And ... what Bijan said. "Cut buffer" is the term, I
think.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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